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Border Ballads
A Selection
The Border Ballads are rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotland, a traditionally lawless area whose inhabitants owed allegiance… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96935-2 (Routledge)
Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance
A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650
The readings gathered here include many rare texts that have not been reprinted for centuries, excerpted from biblical commentary, legal writings, medical and scientific writings,… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3626-6 (Routledge)
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Slavery and Augustan Literature
Swift, Pope and Gay
Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31286-8 (Routledge)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Sourcebook
First published in book form in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin quickly became a bestseller, recognised as a powerful contribution to anti-slavery debates. After more than… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23474-0 (Routledge)
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
A Sourcebook
No book is more central to the study of nineteenth-century American literature than Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or The Whale. First published it 1851, it still… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24771-9 (Routledge)
Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness
A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood
This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism" - a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky's views,… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30489-4 (Routledge)
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Restoration Bawdy
Sensual pleasure, gentle, violent or comic, is the theme of this anthology of seventeenth-century erotic writing. Restoration Bawdy brings vividly to life a 'masquerading age'.… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96727-3 (Routledge)
Narrative Gravity
Conversation, Cognition, Culture
In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30735-2 (Routledge)
Modern Greek Literature
Critical Essays
The essays collected in Modern Greek Literature represent the work of young scholars as they expand the range of approaches to modern Greek literature. The… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-8153-3778-2 (Routledge)
The Epistolary Novel
Representations of Consciousness
The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30610-2 (Routledge)
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The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
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Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892
By Colleen G. Boggs
To be published February 12th 2009
Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
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